请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 to turn the trick
释义

> as lemmas

to turn the trick
P2. to do the trick, to accomplish one's purpose, do what is wanted; also (chiefly U.S.) to turn the trick.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > advantage > efficacy > be efficacious [verb (intransitive)]
workOE
availa1400
makea1400
prevaila1400
to hit the nail upon (or on) the headc1450
effect1592
serve1593
to tickle it1601
take1611
executea1627
to have force (to do)1713
answer1721
to take place1789
to do the trick1819
to hit (also go to, touch, etc.) the spot1836
produce1881
to press (also push) the button1890
to come through1906
to turn the trick1933
to make a (also the) point1991
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 220 Do the Trick.
1823 P. Egan Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (rev. ed.) Do the trick, to accomplish any robbery, or other business successfully;..a man who has imprudently involved himself in some great misfortune, from which there is little hope of extrication, is declared by his friends..to have done the trick for himself.
1872 Punch 9 Nov. 196/1 Pail of whitewash and box o' paints will do the trick.
1873 A. Trollope Eustace Diamonds II. xxxvii. 134 Then the boy was done with and was carried away. She had played that card, and had turned her trick.]
1895 G. Meredith Amazing Marriage I. xv. 171 I've brought him safe;..He'll do the trick to-day.
1933 Sun (Baltimore) 20 Apr. 10/3 It is our hope and prayer that Mr. Farley may turn the trick. We should be glad to see any administrator make a go of the postal service.
1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 24 But it was the Old Man who really turned the trick.
1960 I. Wallach Absence of Cello 230 It takes many years to live without a deliberate confusion about anyone's wants, including our own. Some people never turn the trick.
1976 Springfield (Mass.) Daily News 22 Apr. 39/2 A couple of American college products turned the trick for the Whalers. North Dakota graduate Alan Hangsleben and New Hampshire alumnus Cap Raeder shared the hero's role in the triumph.
extracted from trickn.
<
as lemmas
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/12/24 8:08:30